Flower & Garnet is a Canadian drama film, written and directed by Keith Behrman and released in 2002.
The Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is an annual award given by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle.
Nicolás Pereda is a Mexican-Canadian film director. To date, he has directed nine features and three short films.
Amber Dawn is a Canadian writer, who won the 2012 Dayne Ogilvie Prize, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to an emerging lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender writer.
The Jay Scott Prize is an annual film award presented by the Toronto Film Critics Association, in conjunction with commercial sponsor Stella Artois, to an emerging talent in the Canadian film industry. First presented in 2009, the award was named in memory of influential Canadian film critic Jay Scott. The award has been most commonly presented to film directors, but has also been given to actors; it is generally given in consideration of the recipient's overall body of work.
Kevan Funk is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. His debut feature film, Hello Destroyer, was released in 2016.
Amanda Strong is a Michif Indigenous filmmaker, media artist and stop-motion director based out of the unceded Coast Salish territory in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has exhibited work and her films have been screened at festivals worldwide, including Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, and the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
Kathleen Hepburn is a Canadian screenwriter and film director. She is most noted for her film Never Steady, Never Still, which premiered as a short film in 2015 before being expanded into her feature film debut in 2017. The film received eight Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018, including Best Picture and a Best Original Screenplay nomination for Hepburn.
Sofia Bohdanowicz is a Canadian filmmaker. She is known for her collaborations with Deragh Campbell and made her feature film directorial debut in 2016 with Never Eat Alone. Her second feature film, Maison du Bonheur, was a finalist for the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award at the 2018 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards. That year, she won the Jay Scott Prize from the Toronto Film Critics Association. Her third feature film, MS Slavic 7, which she co-directed with Campbell, had its world premiere at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival. She has also directed several short films, such as Veslemøy's Song (2018) and Point and Line to Plane (2020).
The nominations for the 19th Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2018, were announced on December 14, 2018. The Favourite led with six nominations, followed by First Reformed with four.
Katherine Jerkovic is a Canadian film director. Her debut feature film, Roads in February , won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.
Drew Lint is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, whose debut feature film M/M debuted at the 2018 Slamdance Film Festival.
Fausto is a Canadian docufiction film, directed by Andrea Bussmann and released in 2018. Set in Oaxaca, Mexico, the film blurs the lines between reality and fantasy by exploring the community's mythologies and folklore.
Deragh Campbell is a Canadian actress and filmmaker. She is known for her acclaimed performances in independent Canadian cinema. Her collaborations with filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz—Never Eat Alone (2016), Veslemøy's Song (2018), MS Slavic 7 (2019), and Point and Line to Plane (2020)—have screened at film festivals internationally. She has also featured in two of Kazik Radwanski's films, How Heavy This Hammer (2015) and Anne at 13,000 Ft. (2019), both of which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Benjamin Ratner is a Canadian actor and filmmaker. He is most noted for his performances in the films Last Wedding, for which he won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Actor in a Canadian Film in 2001, and Looking for Leonard, for which he won the VFCC's award for Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film in 2002, and as director of the film Down River, which won the VFCC's award for Best British Columbia film in 2013.
Yonah Lewis is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, who collaborates on most of his work with Calvin Thomas. The duo are most noted for their 2019 film White Lie, which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Motion Picture, and garnered the duo nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards.
Calvin Thomas is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, who collaborates on most of his work with Yonah Lewis. The duo are most noted for their 2019 film White Lie, which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Motion Picture, and garnered the duo nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards.
Tales of Two Who Dreamt is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Nicolás Pereda and Andrea Bussmann and released in 2016. The film centres on the Laskas, a Roma family of immigrants from Hungary to Canada, who are preparing for their immigration hearing.
The Magnitude of All Things is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jennifer Abbott and released in 2020. The film explores the concept of environmental grief, through the lens of connecting Abbott's emotional reaction to the death of her sister Saille from cancer to her emotional reactions to climate change.
Grace Glowicki is a Canadian actress and filmmaker from Edmonton, Alberta. She is most noted for directing and starring in the 2019 film Tito, which was a shortlisted finalist for the John Dunning Best First Feature Award at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021.
